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New and Noteworthy
Performance All the Way Down
Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference Richard O. Prum An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. science.culture
Born This Way
Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement Joanna Wuest The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy. 2023 304 p. 6 x 9 2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82753-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82978-4 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Sexualizing Cancer
HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention Laura Mamo The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks. 2023 368 p. 6 x 9 2 line drawings, 2 tables 3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82929-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Looking through the Speculum
Examining the Women’s Health Movement Judith A. Houck Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces. 2024 384 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83086-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
New and Noteworthy 1
Developing to Scale
Tools and the Organism
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82863-3 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82877-0 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
How Life Works
For the Love of Mars
Technology and the Making of Global Health Heidi Morefield The first critical book on “appropriate technology,” Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions.
A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. 2023 552 p. 6 x 9 92 halftones 7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82668-4 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine Colin Webster The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.
A Human History of the Red Planet Matthew Shindell A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. 2023 248 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 20 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82189-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
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The Apple II Age
How the Computer Became Personal Laine Nooney An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to essential home appliance. 2023 352 p. 6 x 9 19 color plates, 29 halftones 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81652-4 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Science of Reading
Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America Adrian Johns For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. 2023 504 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82148-1 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Philosopher of Palo Alto Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things John Tinnell A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything—and who hoped for something better. 2023 368 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 1 table 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75720-9 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Madness and Enterprise
Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value Nima Bassiri Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient’s economic productivity. 2024 352 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83089-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Beautiful Experiments
The Varnish and the Glaze
2023 240 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82582-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
2023 336 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 10 halftones 14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82036-1 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Philip Ball Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares.
Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500 Marjolijn Bol A new history of the techniques, materials, and aesthetic ambitions that gave rise to the radiant verisimilitude of Jan van Eyck’s oil paintings on panel.
The Visual Elements
A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering Felice C. Frankel In these essential handbooks, research scientist and award-winning photographer Felice C. Frankel offers accessible guidance for scientists and engineers who must communicate their work visually for grant applications, journal submissions, and conference or poster presentations.
Photography
2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 283 color plates 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82702-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Design
2024 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 232 color plates, 18 halftones 16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82916-6 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
4 History of Science
The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens Philip Ball Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? 2022 512 p. 6 x 9 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Nuclear Minds
Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Ran Zwigenberg How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 2023 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82676-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler Philip Ball The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and ’40s. 2023 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82934-0 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Disputed Inheritance
The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology Gregory Radick A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. 2023 576 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 2 tables 20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82272-3 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
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Crossing the Boundaries of Life
Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology Karl S. Matlin A close look at Günter Blobel’s transformative contributions to molecular cell biology.
The Huxleys
An Intimate History of Evolution Alison Bashford Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. 2022 576 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72011-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2022 368 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 2 line drawings 112 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81934-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Beauty and the Brain
The Science of Human Nature in Early America Rachel E. Walker Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82256-3 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Women in the History of Science
A Sourcebook Edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Lynn Jones, Rebecca Martin, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey A rich collection of primary sources on women in the history of science. Distributed for UCL Press
2023 474 p. 6.14 x 9.21 53 color plates 24 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80008-416-2 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
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Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
Jeffrey M. Binder A wide-ranging history of the intellectual developments that produced the modern idea of the algorithm. 2022 320 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones 31 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82253-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Axiomatics
Mathematical Thought and High Modernism Alma Steingart The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century. 2023 272 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82420-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Reactionary Mathematics
A Genealogy of Purity Massimo Mazzotti A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena. 2023 352 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones, 2 line drawings 26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82674-5 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages
Jacques Sesiano A whimsical examination of math in the Middle Ages. Distributed for EPFL Press
2024 352 p. 63/4 x 91/2 25 Paper ISBN: 978-2-88915-512-5 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50
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Restricted Data
The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Alex Wellerstein The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. 2024 528 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables 28 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83344-6 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Knowledge Flows in a Global Age
A Transnational Approach Edited by John Krige A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. 2022 368 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 29 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82038-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America
Mario Daniels and John Krige The first historical study of export control regulations as a tool for the sharing and withholding of knowledge. 2022 432 p. 6 x 9 8 tables 30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81753-8 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Materials of the Mind
Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920 James Poskett This is not only the first global history of nineteenth-century science but the first global history of phrenology. 2022 373 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones 32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82064-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Media and the Mind
Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 Matthew Daniel Eddy A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. 2023 512 p. 6 x 9 137 halftones, 2 tables 33 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18386-2 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
Tuning the World
Thinking with Sound
A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 Viktoria Tkaczyk Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900. 2023 304 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82328-7 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
Voice Machines
New Material Histories of Music
The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds Bonnie Gordon An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine.
2023 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones 35 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82326-3 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
2023 432 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones, 8 line drawings 36 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82514-4 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 Fanny Gribenski Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.
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Sound Authorities
Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain Edward J. Gillin Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. 2022 320 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones, 4 tables 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78777-0 $50.00 Your Price: $35.00
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines Exploring Science Museums Samuel J. M. M. Alberti From their quirky origins to their contemporary role as centers of advocacy, a look at the secret lives of science museums—past, present, and future. Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 256 p. 61/4 x 91/4 99 halftones 38 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-639-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Carbon Technocracy
A Global Enlightenment
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
The Life of Ideas
2023 376 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82655-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones 40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82576-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia Victor Seow A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.
Western Progress and Chinese Science Alexander Statman A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.
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Botanical Icons
Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean Andrew Griebeler A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past. 2024 344 p. 7 x 10 96 color plates 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82679-0 $55.00 Your Price: $38.50
The Experimental Fire
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 Jennifer M. Rampling A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. Synthesis
2023 416 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 tables 42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82654-7 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Wardian Case
Invisible Hands
2023 288 p. 6 x 9 19 color plates, 40 halftones 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82397-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
2022 384 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82404-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World Luke Keogh The story of a nineteenth-century invention that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, and more.
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency.
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Defining Nature’s Limits
The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science Neil Tarrant A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the postReformation era. 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81942-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Casanova’s Lottery
The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance Stephen M. Stigler The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. 2022 240 p. 6 x 9 62 halftones, 22 tables 47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82079-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein”
Sharon Ruston The first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2022 192 p. 61/4 x 91/4 32 color plates, 16 halftones 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-557-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
From Lived Experience to the Written Word
Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World Pamela H. Smith How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. 2022 352 p. 83/4 x 91/2 75 color plates, 41 halftones 48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81824-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Reading the Book of Nature
The Nature of the Future
2022 544 p. 6 x 9 47 halftones, 2 tables 49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81576-3 $47.50 Your Price: $33.25
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82002-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Quantum Legacies
Unearthing Fermi’s Geophysics
How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age Jonathan R. Topham A powerful reimagining of the world in which a young Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution.
Dispatches from an Uncertain World David Kaiser A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. 2022 360 p. 51/2 x 81/2 47 halftones 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81999-0 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North Emily Pawley The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US.
Gino C. Segrè and John D. Stack Follow—for the first time—Nobel laureate and legendary teacher Enrico Fermi’s lost course on geophysics. 2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 44 halftones, 12 tables 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80514-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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William James, MD
Addiction Becomes Normal
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 53 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82898-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83276-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
How the Clinic Made Gender
Birth Figures
Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician Emma K. Sutton The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work.
The Medical History of a Transformative Idea Sandra Eder An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. 2022 336 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81993-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
On the Late-Modern American Subject Jaeyoon Park Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.
Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body Rebecca Whiteley The first full study of “birth figures,” sets of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery. 2023 312 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates, 55 halftones 56 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82312-6 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
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Brown Skins, White Coats
Race Science in India, 1920–66 Projit Bihari Mukharji A unique narrative structure brings the history of race science in mid-twentieth-century India to vivid life. 2023 368 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82301-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Dr. Nurse
Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing Dominique A. Tobbell An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. 2022 320 p. 6 x 9 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82290-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Rethinking Hypothyroidism Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do Antonio C. Bianco, MD In this primer for patients, their families, and their doctors, a leading physician and scientist explains why the standard treatment for hypothyroidism fails many—and offers an empowering call for change. 2022 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82316-4 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Hearing Happiness
Deafness Cures in History Jaipreet Virdi Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s— and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America. 2022 328 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82406-2 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
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A Healthy Future
Lessons from the Frontlines of a Crisis Ryan Meili An analysis of Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 response that will inspire future reform. Distributed for Purich Publishing
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-7748-8090-9 $35.95 Your Price: $25.16
Autistic Intelligence
Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz Autistic Intelligence examines the diagnostic process to question how we understand autism as a category and to better recognize its intelligence and uncommon sense. 2022 288 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 1 line drawings, 1 tables 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81600-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Quest for Sexual Health How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life Steven Epstein Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it. 2022 400 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables 63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81822-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Ethics by Committee
A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State Noortje Jacobs How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science. 2022 264 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones 64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81932-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Partial Stories
Why Fast?
2022 384 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 3 tables 65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81688-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Food Controversies
Maternal Death from Six Angles Claire L. Wendland A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge.
The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating Christine Baumgarthuber A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 184 p. 43/4 x 73/4 66 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-763-6 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
Stethoscope
The Making of a Medical Icon Anna Harris and Tom Rice A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine. Distributed for Reaktion Books
2022 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 54 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-633-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy Hannah Marcus An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. 2023 360 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones, 2 tables 68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82947-0 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Conservation and Environment 17
Ocean Bestiary
Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton Written and illustrated by Richard J. King A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea— whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking. Oceans in Depth
2023 320 p. 51/2 x 8 93 halftones 69 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81803-0 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Oceans under Glass
Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea Samantha Muka A welcome dive into the world of aquarium craft that offers much-needed knowledge about undersea environments. Oceans in Depth
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones 70 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82413-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Catastrophic Thinking
The Chemical Age
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene David Sepkoski A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think catastrophically” about extinction. science.culture
How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth Frank A. von Hippel A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind’s affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible—while also threatening its essential fabric.
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 71 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82952-4 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 72 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82956-2 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
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Water Always Wins
Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge Erica Gies A hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water. 2023 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82942-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
A History of Our Future Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future. Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2023 208 p. 6 x 9 74 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-147-4 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46
Uncertain Climes
Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America Joseph Giacomelli Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. 2023 248 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones 75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82443-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
A Sense of Urgency
How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric Debra Hawhee A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. 2023 272 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones 76 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82678-3 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
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New Earth Histories
Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World Edited by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. 2023 400 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones, 1 tables 77 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82860-2 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
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Diet for a Large Planet
Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology Chris Otter A history of the unsustainable modern diet— heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar—that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support. 2023 400 p. 6 x 9 65 halftones 78 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82653-0 $39.00 Your Price: $27.30
George Meléndez Wright
The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks Jerry Emory The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. 2023 248 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82494-9 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
National Parks Forever
Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence Jonathan B. Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty years—and offer a bold vision for the parks’ future. 2022 240 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 80 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81908-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
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The Sloth Lemur’s Song
Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present Alison Richard A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. 2023 352 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 50 halftones 81 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82949-4 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
Shaping the Wild
Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm David Elias This book examines the reality of farming’s impact on nature by studying a Welsh hill farm. Distributed for Calon
2023 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 halftones, 1 map 83 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-915279-34-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
One Planet, Many Worlds
The Climate Parallax Dipesh Chakrabarty A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman. The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2023 144 p. 51/2 x 8 82 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-157-3 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46
Stones
A Material and Cultural History Cally Oldershaw The story of our deep and multifaceted connections to geological matter—the very bedrock of our lives. Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 296 p. 63/4 x 83/4 98 color plates, 23 halftones 84 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-771-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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Enchanted Forests
The Poetic Construction of a World before Time Boria Sax Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape’s power.
Plants Matter
Exploring the Becomings of Plants and People Edited by Luci Attala and Louise Steel This book redefines plants as more than something to be consumed by humans. Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
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Distributed for University of Wales Press
2023 288 p. 61/4 x 91/4 65 color plates, 34 halftones 85 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-790-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
2023 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 halftones 86 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-83772-048-4 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50
Knowing Manchuria
Biotic Borders
Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland Ruth Rogaski Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands. 2022 464 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 21 halftones 87 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80965-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 Jeannie N. Shinozuka A rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America. 2022 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 88 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81733-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
22 Space Science
New in Paper
Shaping Science
Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams Janet Vertesi Drawing on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA’s robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s, Janet Vertesi uncovers how the social organization of a scientific team affects their scientific practices and results.
Phenomena
Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas Giles Sparrow The expansive and intricate Atlas Coelestis, created by Johann Doppelmayr in 1742, set out to record everything known about astronomy at the time, covering constellations, planets, moons, comets, and more, all rendered in exquisite detail. 2022 256 p. 101/2 x 14.375 600 color plates 90 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82411-6 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 89 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82955-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions Paul Davies Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. 2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 17 halftones, 1 table 91 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82387-4 $16.00 Your Price: $11.20
Simulating the Cosmos
Why the Universe Looks the Way It Does Romeel Davé A behind-the-scenes look at the latest tool in astrophysics: computer simulations of the cosmos. Universe Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 color plates, 20 halftones 92 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-714-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Science Reference 23
The CSE Manual, Ninth Edition
Scientific Style and Format for Authors, Editors, and Publishers Council of Science Editors Comprehensive and authoritative scientific style and format rules from the leading professional association in science publishing. 2024 880 p. 7 x 10 29 halftones, 76 line drawings, 149 tables 96 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68394-2 $80.00 Your Price: $56.00
Life and Research
A Survival Guide for Early-Career Biomedical Scientists Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer Practical advice on how to survive and thrive in a scientific research lab. Chicago Guides to Academic Life
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82209-9 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Probably Overthinking It
How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions Allen B. Downey An essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making. 2023 256 p. 6 x 9 126 line drawings, 22 tables 94 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82258-7 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
Getting In
The Essential Guide to Finding a STEMM Undergrad Research Experience Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer An empowering guide for students in STEMM that demystifies the process of securing undergraduate research experiences. Chicago Guides to Academic Life
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 93 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82541-0 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
24 History of Technology
Data Grab
The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry A compelling argument that the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism—and a crucial guide to collective resistance. 2024 224 p. 6 x 9 97 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83230-2 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Sounding Human
Music and Machines, 1740/2020 Deirdre Loughridge An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. New Material Histories of Music
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 42 halftones 99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83011-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Specter of the Archive
Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain Nicholas Popper An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. 2024 320 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 98 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82597-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Dead Reckoning
Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk Diane Vaughan Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe. 2023 640 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 100 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82657-8 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
History of Technology/Philosophy of Science 25
The Doctor Who Wasn’t There
Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth Jeremy A. Greene This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive. 2022 336 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones 101 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80089-9 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Inference and Representation
A Study in Modeling Science Mauricio Suárez The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology. 2024 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones 103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83004-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
Incommensurability in Science Thomas S. Kuhn A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. 2022 312 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 102 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82274-7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age David W. Bates A revolutionary history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines. 2024 424 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 104 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83210-4 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
26 Philosophy of Science
Limits of the Numerical
The Abuses and Uses of Quantification Edited by Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, and Stephen John This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.
Split and Splice
A Phenomenology of Experimentation Hans-Jörg Rheinberger An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation. 2023 256 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones 106 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82532-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 5 tables 105 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81715-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Experimenting the Human
Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman G Douglas Barrett An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human. 2023 240 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones 107 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82340-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
Pierre M. Durand Durand explores the evolutionary mystery death through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life, revealing that the evolution of more complex cellular life depended on the coadaptation between traits that promote life and those that promote cell death. 2020 232 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones, 3 tables 108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74776-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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How Does Germline Regenerate?
Kate MacCord A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology—the divide between germ and somatic cells—with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
What Is Regeneration?
Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration. Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2022 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 110 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81656-2 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
2024 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones 109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83051-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction
Of Maybugs and Men
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 111 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82797-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
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Joseph Rouse A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality.
A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block A much-needed exploration of the history and philosophy of scientific research into male homosexuality.
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